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Take it easy.
“Are you hungry?”
That’swhat came out of my mouth instead of any of the other appropriate responses.
She turned around, surprise flashing over her features. “Starved.”
Well, that settled that.
“Let me change, then we’ll head out.”
She stopped me in the doorway, her hand on my chest. “I thought you said this was a bad idea?”
I said that two nights ago when she invited me for coffee, but that was before I saw her again today. Before I spent an entire day with her, trapped in a room and feeling more alive than I had in years just from being around her.
“It is a bad idea,” I said, and she dropped her hand, her eyes falling to study her stilettos. I tipped her chin up, cursing myself for the contact but relishing it all the same. “But don’t we always have fun doing bad things?”
Her lips parted, and I had to physically stop myself from dragging my thumb over her bottom lip. I managed to head past her, hurrying to change, and had us at a two-top table atLyla’s Placewithin fifteen minutes.
The silence between us wasn’t unbearable, but there was a tension to it that made me ache.
“Anne,” Lyla, the owner of the best restaurant in town, said as she walked past our table. “Aren’t you in here enough?” she asked. “What brings you in on your night off?”
I snapped my head to Anne, shock radiating all over me. She worked here? When she said she had a job, I figured it was at one of her father’s many corporations or connections.
“This is the best place to eat in town,” Anne said.
Lyla smiled at her but shook her head. “I’ll cook up something special for you two.”
“Thanks,” Anne called to Lyla’s back, which was covered in a white chef’s jacket as she hurried back to the kitchen.
The restaurant was half full, with more people coming in by the minute.
“I didn’t know you worked here,” I said after the waitress brought our iced teas.
“You didn’t ask,” she said.
Fair.
“Speaking of things we didn’t ask,” she continued. “Are you married?”
I cocked an eyebrow at her. “Do you think I’d be here with you if I was?”
Heat churned in her eyes. “No,” she said. “But this isn’t a date, is it?”
“You said you were hungry,” I said instead of addressing the question. I didn’t know what this was other than me being incapable of staying away from her now that she was back in town.
She pursed her lips. “So you’re not in a relationship?”
“No,” I said, shaking my head.
The smile she wore did something to me, making me shift in my chair with a sense of pride and need that was hard to contain.
“How long have you been a cop?”
“Eight years now,” I said, sighing at the easier shift in conversation. “I went to the academy right after high school.”
“It suits you,” she said, and I grinned.
